New generation of speed cameras are immoral... really?

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The AA employs the language of ethics to excuse those who want to drive faster than considered opinion has deemed safe

Whenever there is a furore about the increased use of speed cameras, as there is periodically, I try to pay particular attention. The outrage erupts — and I always worry that I’m missing something. Something important, something that might explain the anger that middle England — in the shape of Top Gear, the TaxPayers’ Alliance, many of my friends and relatives, most newspaper columnists (for what we’re worth) — seems to feel towards these devices. I’m not being facetious. I find the issue genuinely confusing.

I start from a position that if you don’t break the speed limit, then what’s the problem? I